Is Israel the Sole Determinant of US Presidential Elections? by Sibel Edmonds

by Sibel Edmonds Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post April 18, 2011 They Say They Are… Are the elections results of US presidential elections determined by 2% of the population? Can the five million or so Jewish population be counted as the US majority? Does the Israel lobby shape the majority of US [...]

Waiting for the Spark by Ralph Nader

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ by Ralph Nader The Nader Page April 18, 2011 photo by ra_hurd What could start a popular resurgence in this country against the abuses of concentrated, avaricious corporatism? Imagine the arrogance of passing on to already cheated working people and the jobless enormous corporate losses? This is achieved through government bailouts and tax escapes. [...]

Bahraini rulers play sectarian card in bid to trump pro-democracy movement By Finian Cunningham

by Finian Cunningham Featured Writer Dandelion Salad April 18, 2011 Manama, Bahrain Increasing attacks on Shia mosques in the Bahraini state’s withering crackdown against the pro-democracy movement is a deliberate attempt to isolate the political opposition and amounts to a campaign of “sectarian cleansing”, say human rights groups. Over the past four weeks since the Saudi-led Gulf [...]

Throw Out the Money Changers by Chris Hedges

by Chris Hedges Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Truthdig April 18, 2011 These are remarks Chris Hedges made in Union Square in New York City last Friday during a protest outside a branch office of the Bank of America. We stand today before the gates of one of our temples of finance. It is a temple where [...]

Relying on Misinformation, U.S. Senate Calls on U.N. to Rescind Goldstone Report by Jeremy R. Hammond

by Jeremy R. Hammond Featured Writer Dandelion Salad Foreign Policy Journal April 17, 2011 The U.S. Senate on April 14 passed a resolution “calling on the United Nations to rescind the Goldstone report”, the popular name for the report of a U.N. fact-finding mission chaired by Richard Goldstone that was charged with investigating Israel’s full-scale [...]